I think the issue with the sorting centre is only related to SFP, however I believe there is something going on.

Just before this started all of amazon emails were being directed to junk mail. Next month we will be able to see if traffic to Amazon has decreased this month which I believe possibly has happened as impressions with PPC have gone down. Saying that I don’t think its the only issue they are (We are) experiencing.

80 sales a day down to 10 cant just be due to change of purchasing habit of every buyer in the uk

We’ve had a really good day in terms of FBA but our own SF orders have been dire… the last 30 minutes we’ve now randomly had an order every 2 minutes… which is odd as Friday nights are dead for us… the time we’d expect it to be busy before 6pm and early morning hardly any orders…

I set my keyword bids down by 500% and then increase placement bids for top of search by 500% (Sounds odd). However this has the effect that for each of the keywords placement is at the top or close to with minimal cost with no spend for product placement - where conversion rates for my products are very low. It has always worked well however it seemed to have changed so I have gone through everything and now seems to be working better. Not sure if something has changed with PPC recently.

Just to add again my sales are dreadful. Could you email over a couple of your titles and let me see if they are coming up in a search. I think your items are most similar to mine in that you design and manufacture them yourself. It’s just an idea. Also to add I did speak with CS but no joy with them at all.

We had very strong orders this morning up until around 11am and then it’s gone dead… But it’s a really nice weekend… last of the good weather for this time of year… Kids have been back at school a week or two so parents want to spend some time with them… Will likely pick up after dinner or Sunday afternoon onwards…

I’m using FBA - anyone else having issues with FBA? Last Friday I had record sales and this Friday none - nothing has changed yet I go from high sales to none. Some “expedited” orders are taking over 48 hours to dispatch (should be less than a day). So there must be some sort of problem. My stock is in MAN2 (Warrington) so I’m wondering if this is a problem with nearby warehouses due to the new MAN8 (Merseyside). Either way - this can’t be the weather, or people waiting to payday if we all have sales history. Something is wrong and it looks like amazon is changing the landscape of things.

I was looking to buy a few household items and attempting to sort things in any meaningful way is a nightmare.

At the same time I was looking up a number of fairly obscure books with very specific titles and authors and not even advanced booksearch could find most of them - not without a tremendous amount of digging amongst the semi-invisible expansion buttons while attempting (forlonly) to filter out all the bogus duplicates.
If if even very experienced buyers can’t find what they’re looking for with ease, what chance the casual buyer will persist?
Amazon search is getting to be ridiculous.